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Part 2/2 of Shishir's multi-stage interview question - part 1 is on my account

Part 2 is on my account. He asks follow-up questions that get harder and harder - comment answers!

Pause it and try before he explains what he's testing for! #shorts

It's pretty hard to sell subscriptions to people who don't have the credit cards to buy them!

Building Substack | Sachin Monga (Substack, Facebook)

Category creation and brand building | Barbra Gago (Pando, Miro, Greenhouse, Culture Amp)

Pause it and try before she reveals what she's looking for! #shorts

Before founding Pando, Barbra was the CMO of Miro #shorts

Barbra said she'd only join as CMO if they changed their name - they did! #shorts

Barbra helped create the "visual collaboration" category from scratch #shorts

This advice has been a reccuring theme with guests on the pod

What do you think of studying product management vs doing product management? #shorts

Fareed helps facilitate PM courses at Reforge and was previously Director of Product at Slack

Fareed said you should also get curious about the "stacks" either side of you in other teams

How to build trust and grow as a product leader | Fareed Mosavat (Reforge, Slack, Instacart, Pixar)

This is why "diversity makes business sense", as Adriel said on the pod #shorts

Adriel calls this "Incremental Thinking" - seem familiar to you at all? #shorts

Adriel was previously the Director of Product Management and a Product Lead at Facebook

"When complaints were happening about driving on Lyft, I drove. Like, let me go feel this myself"

This insight helped Adriel becom VP of Product @ Reddit, Director of PM @ Lyft, Product lead @ FB

Sometimes genius is simpler than you think #shorts

Humanizing product development | Adriel Frederick (Reddit, Lyft, Facebook)

Adriel was explaining why often no amount of data can replace watching & talking to users up close

Adriel said this is what he's seen work across his long career #shorts

This is why tiny teams can outperform massive companies #shorts

Retros involve sitting down as a team after a project/sprint, and discussing how it went #shorts

You can do it #shorts

This is a simple, easy tip but it goes a long way #shorts

Building better roadmaps | Janna Bastow (Mind the Product, ProdPad)

Janna invented the Now/Next/Later approach that is becoming more popular today #shorts

Janna builds software for PMs and has one of the world's largest PM communities - so she'd know!

Can you guess the feature?

This BIZARRE interview move landed someone a job at Lyft

How to build a high-performing growth team | Adam Fishman (Patreon, Lyft, Imperfect Foods)

Dan said prioritizing supply early on can make sense, but beyond that it's all about demand

Building marketplaces is complicated - this metric helps cut through the noise and prioritize well

Dan went deep on marketplace metrics, including a few concepts you may have never heard of

People love to talk about "unbundling" Facebook, LinkedIn and more, but it's not so simple

Dan says retention is the metric that drives everything we care about - so how do we increase it?

Dan observed this while playing with the numbers in growth models he has built for many companies

Yes you acquired them once, yes you have their contact details... but there's more to the story

Georgiana's has implemented these ideas in Google, Tiktok, Facebook and more

It can be hard to assess startups so this framework really helps with making a choice

Georgiana Laudi is a SaaS growth advisor through her company Forget The Funnel #shorts

Georgiana Laudi is a SaaS growth advisor through her company Forget The Funnel #shorts

The first teaches brand, the second teaches habit-forming products #shorts

Developing a growth model + marketplace growth strategy | Dan Hockenmaier

Teresa says this is a crucial factor in the debate around how much say PMs should have